Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 15, 2018 First we
witnessed the antics of spoiled brats who boycotted the inauguration and now we
are being treated to a new round of spoiled brats of Wilson, Waters, Lewis and
Blumenauer who have announced they will not attend—no wonder why we have
gridlock and obstruction from the Blues who still have not come to grips with
the fact they lost and deserve our condemnation for this foolishness; the
Uranium One scandal finally being investigated has produced its first indictment
against Mark Lambrecht, Maryland transportation executive for money laundering
and bribery to obtain contracts from Russians to transport out of the country
uranium subject of the Uranium One deal ( Hillary and Bill better be lawyered
up on this because if the DOJ is serious as opposed to the lip service paid by
a corrupt Comey and his Clintonites, they may be facing along with Obama seeing
the inside of a prison cell where they belong; Megyn Kelly left Fox to go to
NBC in exchange for a $23 million paycheck but unlike her fellow high paid Nonstop
Biased Cack cohorts she is not going to South Korea for the Winter Olympics
raising questions that she may exit from that cesspool of advocacy journalism;
Judge Persky who sentenced a Stanford swimmer to 6 months for raping an unconscious
woman at a frat party will be facing recall as irate citizens turned in a
recall petition with 95,000 signatures( what makes this worthy of comment is
that the left is attacking leftist Senator Gillibrand for supporting the recall;
on the really sick front David and Louise Turpin of Perris, California were arrested and held on $9 million bail each
for child endangerment of shackling 12 of their children to their beds and
withholding food and water; source for numbers of people shot and killed in
Chicago in 2018 temporarily on hold.
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music
link to Carly Simon, factoids of interest for this day in history, the lexicology
readers of Ridley's Believe It Or Not-This Day In History are exposed to, and a
relevant quote by Kenneth Adelmann on Desert Storm II that he wishes he never
made, secure in the knowledge that if you
want to find a gift for any memorable events like birthdays, weddings,
or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a
unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the
recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day—commemorating work of Martin Luther
King, Jr. in the advancement of civil rights through peaceful nonviolence and
created by President Reagan in 1983 and celebrated by all 50 states in 2000.
More so than ever we need a man of his vision to be in the forefront of reducing the racial divide that exists today.
More so than ever we need a man of his vision to be in the forefront of reducing the racial divide that exists today.
2. Elementary School Teachers Day—commemorating the positive effects
on children’s lives that elementary school teachers have made.
3. 1973 Number One Song— the number one song in 1973 on a run of 3 weeks in that
position was “You’re So Vain” by Carly Simon. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZmCJUSC6g
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lexicology” which is the study of
words and their meanings which is one of the benefits for visiting Alaskanpoet.blogspot.com.
5. Drummer Boy--celebrating the birth on this day in 1909 of noted American
drummer who was the first drummer inducted into the Drummer Hall of Fame but
who sadly ceased beating the drums fast or slowly at the age of 64 due to leukemia.
On this day
in:
a. 1943 the Pentagon was dedicated and open for business to win World
War II..
b. 1967 the first Super Bowl was played in Los Angeles with the
Green Bay Packers defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10.
c. 1976 Gerald Ford’s second attempted assassin Sara Jane Moore
was sentenced to life in prison where she served 32 years until being paroled
at age 77 on December 31, 2007.
d. 1991 the deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait passed,
paving the way for the U.S. and its coalition to commence 42 days of 100,000
sorties with 88,000 tons of bombs starting on January 16, 1991 and later
followed by ground combat which defeated the Iraqis in 100 hours after Allied
forces crossed into Kuwait and Iraq.
e. 2001 Wikipedia the on-line encyclopedia commenced operations.
Reflections on the wrong park to take a
walk in: “Desert Storm II would be in a walk in the park... The case for
'regime change' boils down to the huge benefits and modest costs of liberating
Iraq.” Kenneth Adelman noted American diplomat and UN Ambassador under
President Reagan. Talk about being wrong on that prediction given the fact there
were no WMD present to justify the regime change and the U.S. totally misjudged
the reaction to the occupation and complicity of the Iraqi administration in
dividing the country and suppressing the Sunnis. Please
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January 15, 2018 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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